Chaparral Ice Has a Slick New Computer System

Austin, TX, December 08, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Just a few weeks ago, if you played Hockey at the 1-35 Chaparral Ice Center and wanted to see if you could join the league at their North Cross location, the only way you could find out would be to drive over there or pick up the phone and call. If you were at the North Cross location and wanted to reserve the 1-35 location for a company function, the only way to do it was to drive over to the I-35 or pick up the phone. That was a few weeks ago.

Today, Chaparral Ices Centers share more than the fact that they are owned and operated by the Collins Family. The two locations and their Administration offices are totally integrated using Thin-nology’s “Virtual Office Program”. Their office programs, their email system, their reservation system, their book keeping system, are all housed on Thin-nology’s servers located in a Data Center in Southwest Austin. Their Point of Sales Terminals and their desk tops now have a small device called a Thin Client; this device communicates with Thin-nology’s servers and provides the same functionality as the PC we all have sitting under our desks. The difference is… Thin Client devices have no moving parts (which means they last for 6-8 years), they cost about half the price of a PC, do not need Anti-virus software for protection, and cannot get Spyware loaded on to them. This means they stay up 100% of the time.

Now, any location you are in, with a couple of taps on the Touch Screen Monitor, you can join the league at the location of your choice, buy that special outfit a friend had just called you about, book the coach of your choice, or just get the skating schedule for the month.

Charles Collins said the decision to utilize Thin-nology’s program came down to one single fact… “It got us out of the IT business and let us focus on our core business. Then you add in the fact my offices, Point of Sales Terminals, Reservations Systems, Bookkeeping Systems and Employees are totally integrated, and available to me 24/7/365 from any where in the world; you can understand how easy the decision was.”

Jon Bowling President of Thin-nology said that the Virtual Office Program is similar to an ASP, only Thin-nology provides the entire Microsoft Office Suite, plus both commercially available and custom Application Programs. “Our Virtual Office is the perfect solution for business’ of all sizes because we integrate the entire organization and provide them access to their desktop from any where in the world. All at a cost much less than an organization would incur trying to do it all in house”.

Bowling went on to say that Thin Client technology will dominate the business world over the next five years and within ten years most households as well. He added that the technology is user friendly as well as fast and very reliable; he has it in his own home, where his six year old twins, log-in every day to play their games and Google the world.”

To find out more about Chaparral Ice, go to Chaperralice.com. For more information on Thin-nology and their Virtual Office Programs go to
Thin-nology.com or VOSPOnline.com

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